Christine Gable

Specialty: Slow Cooker/Crockpot, Kids' Cuisine
Education: Millersville University, Vermont College
Lives: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania


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Double-Layer Teen Adventure
There wasn’t a speck of anything for dessert in the house—well, besides some old dark chocolate baking bars. And while I’ve been known to break off a piece to pair with peanut butter in a pinch,...


The Apple Dumpling Gang At My House
Usually the cooler autumn weather stirs up the desire to attend a handful of local fairs or—since we’re in farm country—ubiquitous farm shows. And it just so happened that after trying our hand...


Halloween, Chompers and the Caramel Apple
Caramel apples: We’ve all heard of ‘em, chewed on ‘em, even enjoyed ‘em at fairs and farm shows (And hopefully not broken a tooth or lost a filling on ‘em). But chocolate turtle caramel apples?...


Roll, Jelly, Roll
Jelly rolls. While I had never made ‘em before, I had looked in awe at many a party and picnic where these delightful dessert rolls appeared: pumpkin, apple spice, even raspberry crème. Yet they all...


Ready, Set, Go! PB Kitchen Creations
If there’s one food that could be found in just about any kitchen with kids—barring allergies, of course—it’s peanut butter. Whether completing the classic PB&J, pairing up with apples, or just...


Gaining a Feel For Fillo
It was a rainy evening and we had just arrived home after taking a wet walk after my son’s guitar lesson. These are often the nights that my daughter and I enjoy dallying through town (sometimes Dad...


Egg Rolls For Breakfast?
We recently went on a garage sale binge: yes, we actually got up on several Saturday mornings at 6:30 AM to convene in the garages and yards of folks unloading their unnecessaries (aka 'junk'), poking...


Read and Eat: Chicken & Dumplings
It’s a meal that I haven’t made in over a decade, and I can’t even say I had plans to anytime in the near future either. But then it so happened that daughter read—and inquired—about it while...


Hot Dogs, The Taste Test
It was one of those spontaneous happenings … and that, as you probably have noticed by now, is one of the beauties of life with kids. Especially when it involves food, cooking or any type of taste test....


Mix 'n Match Pasta
Just yesterday I looked in my pantry and was speechless: no pasta left? No boxes or bags of elbows, spirals or linguine left anywhere? Of course, after the kitchen’s demolition and remodeling (complete...


Weekly Budget Savin': Back to Basics
All summer long we’ve been hearing how skyrocketing gas prices have put a crimp in America's style. While a good thing for the environment, it’s not such a good thing for weekly food budgets. As...


Back-to-School Mealtime Challenge
Yes, it’s that time already—with kids heading out to school and work-a-day parents heading out to take care of business, it can often mean that everyone is heading in many different directions. By...


Summer's Encore Performance: Peaches
It’s one bite that is the quintessential taste of summer: the chin-dripping, ripe goodness that is also my favorite fruit. Peaches. Whether eaten fresh out-of-hand, in a crisp, cobber, pie—or even...


Lovin' Enchiladas
Do you eat enchiladas at your house? Or does the term conjure up Mexican fare that’s ordered out? According to the Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, an enchilada is: “A tortilla stuffed with...


Get Sugar-Smart
Did you know that one regular soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar? Plus (and this probably isn’t news to you), slurping sodas regularly will up your kids’ chances of obesity by 60 percent. Yikes. But...


The Red Beet Mystery
Guess which of these happened this week with a bag of week-old red beets in the refrig drawer (that I didn’t have a clue what to do with)? a) Ignored, they got more wrinkled daily, until I finally...